North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Wexford, Pennsylvania, which has a total of 21,202 people. This nursing home is a respectable facility, with an overall grade of C. You can certainly do worse than this facility. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
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North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Please note our records indicate that North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this nursing home an A- in short-term care. Short-term care scores are meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
Inspections is another area where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
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Nurse Quality
We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this metric. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients at least once a day.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home really didn't perform well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this was its weakest area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.15151 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that suffer from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.38% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a fall resulting in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.85% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often the result of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.28% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 18.78% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of long-term care patients which are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.3% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 86.27% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.17% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17.92% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17.92 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 9.68 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In North Hills Health and Rehabilitation Center, 73.03% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Upmc PassavantAcute Care Hospitals 5.37 miles away9100 Babcock Boulevard Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15237Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 367-6700
- Heritage Valley SewickleyAcute Care Hospitals 9.07 miles away720 Blackburn Road Sewickley Pennsylvania 15143Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 741-7000
- Ohio Valley General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.67 miles away25 Heckel Road Mc Kees Rocks Pennsylvania 15136Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 777-6161
- Allegheny General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.98 miles away320 East North Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15212Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 359-3131
- Upmc St MargaretAcute Care Hospitals 13.48 miles away815 Freeport Road Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15215Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 784-4000
- West Penn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.54 miles away4800 Friendship Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15224Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 578-5000
- Upmc MercyAcute Care Hospitals 14.5 miles away1400 Locust Street Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15219Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 232-8111
- Heritage Valley BeaverAcute Care Hospitals 14.54 miles away1000 Dutch Ridge Road Beaver Pennsylvania 15009Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 728-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci of Seven Fields3.44 miles away201 Highpointe Drive Mars Pennsylvania 16046Dialysis Stations: 19 (724) 779-3930
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Cranberry3.62 miles away5 Saint Francis Way Cranberry Twp Pennsylvania 16066Dialysis Stations: 7 (724) 779-9770
- Dci of North Hills7.18 miles away3412 Babcock Boulevard Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15237CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (412) 635-0211
- Davita Avonworth Dialysis7.26 miles away259 Mt. Nebo Pointe Road Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15237Dialysis Stations: 9 (412) 364-3238
- Liberty Dialysis - Baden8.73 miles away1682 State Street Baden Pennsylvania 15005CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (724) 869-2830
- Dci of North Borough Clinic10.03 miles away100 South Jackson Avenue, 7th Central Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15202Dialysis Stations: 8 (412) 766-6590
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Shaler10.62 miles away880 Butler Street Shaler Plaza Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15223Dialysis Stations: 16 (412) 782-3790
- Davita Thorn Run Dialysis11.43 miles away1136 Thorn Run Road, Suite j1 Coraopolis Pennsylvania 15108Dialysis Stations: 15 (412) 269-2304